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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40338600 Title: The mathemagician and pied puzzler : a collection in tribute to Martin Gardner Author: Martin Gardner; Elwyn R Berlekamp; Tom Rodgers Publisher: Natick, Mass. : A K Peters, ©1999. ISBN/ISSN: 156881075X 9781568810751 OCLC:40338600

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The mathemagician and pied puzzler : a collection in tribute to Martin Gardner

Author:	Martin Gardner; Elwyn R Berlekamp; Tom Rodgers
Publisher:	Natick, Mass. : A K Peters, ©1999.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	An imaginative collection of pieces created in tribute to Martin Gardner. Best known for his "Mathematical Games" column in "Scientific American", Gardner used his fascination with puzzles and magic Read more...
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Martin Gardner; Elwyn R Berlekamp; Tom Rodgers Find more information about:
ISBN:	156881075X 9781568810751
OCLC Number:	40338600
Description:	x, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	I. Personal magic. Martin Gardner : a "documentary" / Dana Richards -- Ambrose, Gardner, and Doyle / Raymond Smullyan -- A truth learned early / Carl Pomerance -- Martin Gardner = mint! grand! rare! / Jeremiah Farrell -- Three limericks : on space, time, and speed / Tim Rowett -- II. Puzzlers. A maze with rules / Robert Abbott -- Biblical ladders / Donald E. Knuth -- Card game trivia / Stewart Lamle -- Creative puzzle thinking / Nob Yoshigahara -- Number play, calculators, and card tricks : mathemagical black holes / Michael W. Ecker -- Puzzles from around the world / Richard I. Hess --O'Beirne's Hexiamond / Richard K. Guy -- Japanese Tangram (the Sei Shonagon pieces / Shigeo Takagi -- How a Tangram cat happily turns into the pink panther -- Bernhard Wiezorke -- Polly's flagstones / Stewart Coffin -- Those peripatetic pentominoes / Kate Jones -- Self-designing tetraflexagons / Robert E. Neale -- The odyssey of the figure eight puzzle / Stewart Coffin -- Metagrobolizers of wire / Rick Irby -- Beautiful but wrong : the floating hourglass puzzle / Scot Morris -- Cube puzzles / Jeremiah Farrell -- The nine color puzzle / Sivy Fahri -- Twice : a sliding block puzzle / Edward Hordern -- Planar burrs / M. Oskar van Deventer -- Block-packing Jambalaya / Bill Cutler -- Classification of mechanical puzzles and physical objects related to puzzles / James Dalgety and Edward Hordern -- III. Mathemagics. A curious paradox / Raymond Smullyan -- A powerful procedure for proving practical propositions / Solomon W. Golomb -- Misfiring tasks / Ken Knowlton -- Drawing de Bruijin graphs / Herbert Taylor -- Computer analysis of sprouts / David Applegate, Guy Jacobson, and Daniel Sleator -- Strange new life forms : update / Bill Gosper -- Hollow mazes / M. Oskar van Deventer -- Some diophantine recreations / David Singmaster -- Who wins Misère Hex ? / Jeffrey Lagarias and Daniel Sleator -- An update on odd neighbors and odd neighborhoods / Leslie E. Shader -- Point mirror reflection / M. Oskar van Deventer -- How random are 3x + 1 function iterates ? / Jeffrey C. Lagarias.
Responsibility:	edited by Elwyn Berlekamp and Tom Rodgers.
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Even well-known puzzles retain their power, as was made clear again and again last month at the seventh "Gathering for Gardner." These conferences of mathematicians, puzzlers, game-players and Read more...

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